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Don't you hate it with that happens? My guess is it says "in hands of himself and Richard C______." The 2nd letter of Richard's last name is either u or a, the next 2 letters are probably lh and the rest could be about anything. Anyway sounds like they were struggling with the rifle and it went off.

I was pretty close - I thought his last name was Calhoun - the only Richard I find in Greenup, Kentucky was Richard Callihan, living in District 7, but enumerated several pages earlier than the Chinns.

I just checked back to see if anyone figured it out for sure and noticed how flip my opening comment sounds under the circumstances of such a tragic event. Sorry about that, I probably shouldn't be trying to write at 1 a.m.